Advances in maize genomics: The emergence of positional cloning

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-171

  Bortiri, Esteban ^a   Jackson, Dave ^b   Hake, Sarah ^a  

^a PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME MAP; FLOWERING; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HISTOLOGY; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLOWERING TOPS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33344466122     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.01.006     Document Type: Review

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